Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Newly sworn-in U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will declare illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border a ...

A gang leader suspected of running illegal gold mining operations in South Africa has escaped police custody. An ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...